On Mon, Aug 24, 2020, at 3:38 AM, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020/08/22 00:12, Edd Barrett wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 12:03:38AM +0100, Edd Barrett wrote: > > > -WANTLIB += c pthread > > > > I think I may have been wrong to remove this, even though `make > > port-lib-depends-check` is happy. > > > > Is that right Stuart? > > You'll need to ask someone familiar with go. One of the problems with > go ports is there is no mechanism to trigger updates when the compiler > itself is updated (which will usually result in the built packages > changing). > > We don't really want a run dependency on the compiler but there's no > other way to say "update this package when the compiler is updated" > as there's no library dependency (the usual trigger for this..) > >
Fwiw, jsing has a branch of upstream Go that makes the transition to using libc : ( https://github.com/4a6f656c/go/tree/openbsd-syscall , https://github.com/golang/go/issues/36435 ) Maybe we keep the wantlib until this is in our tree? Less work down the line maybe.
